It's been three days since the whole rescue operation.
In a hospital bed which was surrounded by security, Naruto Uzumaki was resting after getting an emergency surgery for eight hours, when he arrived here by helicopter the doctors immediately went to work with him.
The surgeons were horrified with the wounds Naruto had, with the head being hit multiple times and signs of head trauma and cuts that went from the temple to the throat. His legs were hacked like a butchered meat and he burn marks on his chest with bruise marks that were as big as an hand when he was brought in here.
The doctors, including Rainbow's doc Gustave thought first he would need to take months to recover but were surprised when Lelei started healing him for three straight days with casting several spells over him to make him better.
Gustave, the only doctor who was inside the hospital room, saw how Lelei was casting a spell that covered Naruto's bandaged parts of the body with a greenish mist that absorbed through the bandages. When she was done with her part, Gustave would change the bandages and examine Naruto's condition.
He did felt uncomfortable with the staring he received from the newly arrived Anasazi warriors who came in two days ago. Unlike the two he helped in the public library, these warriors were very warry and suspicious of him and anyone who came close to Naruto, even with them being informed that these were his former colleagues. It especially bothered him that they even brought their guns in the room while standing on each corner, like they were waiting for him to do something.
Gustave couldn't help but release a scoff from his mouth.
Lelei noticed this and asked "Something wrong, mister?"
"Nothing little girl," Gustave answered "It's just I cannot work with these folks, ready to pull the trigger on me or something."
"Don't be angry sir," Lelei replied as she looked at them briefly "they're just anxious if something was to happen to Naruto. They never saw him in such kind of condition."
Gustave's interested spiked at that comment and decided to ask "So, Lelei. What's you relation?"
"My what?" Lelei asked confused.
"Your relation, to Naruto. What is it?" Gustave asked as he was curious why most of these young looking girls like that Rory girl knew Naruto closely.
She turned back to Naruto's body and smiled "He's family…."
Gustave raised his eyebrow.
"You see, me and my sister fled from our abusive stepfather and landed ourselves in the Western Desert, finding ourselves into a warzone. Even though we officially met Naruto in Rondel, our first encounter was in Kosbachi…" She gripped her staff while thinking of how she and her sister were forced to go through some rough times.
Gustave patted her on the shoulder and asked "Please, continue."
She nodded and resumed "We were in 'a camp' somewhere in the far west where we were brought by these trains that carried us in these wagons that were filled with people the Merchant wanted to get rid of.
'It sounds like…could it?...' Gustave thought after hearing that and asked "Lelei, what kind of people were on these wagons?"
"Enemies of the Merchant, humanoids, the handicapped, prisoners of war, people he considered as 'not worthy of living' he was quite a harsh person against us…"
Flashback
10 years ago; train station west of Western Desert
A six year old Lelei, together with her stepsister Arpeggio were standing in the overcrowded train wagon where they have been in for three days. With little food and water that were given to them once in a while, they have been filled with panic as they now were being deported to the far west.
Lelei and Arpeggio, both girls who were identified as magic holders, were arrested a week ago for witchcraft, which was looked down and hated by the Merchant. They like many others were sent to the far western province Kosbachi. A place where the Merchant's condemned were sent into camps.
The train stopped at its final destination, Tahan station. A crossroad where all trains with deportees would load off the prisoners from the wagons and force them into death marches towards the Kosbachi camps.
One of the deportees, a dark skinned woman looked through the small window that was closed by an soldier and began saying "We're doomed."
"What?" the guy next to her said "What are you talking about?"
"They're sending us to Kosbachi."
"Yeah, so what? a young man, who was deported for being in a fight against the national forces.
The woman turned to the young man and gave him a stern look "Foolish boy, do you know what they do to you in Kosbachi?"
The young man slowly shook his head while the other passengers in the overcrowded wagon started listening on their conversation.
"They first," the woman began " separate all the families from each other, husbands ripped away from his wives, children dragged out of the hands of their mothers. They start to check the names of the deportees and if one is missing, they behead ten people in front of everybody, they rape the women and humiliate her by calling her names, degrading them. Ripping their clothes off."
Some of the women started to worry for their lives.
"They then force us into a death march towards one of the camps, forcing the men to work into factories where they must make munitions and metal for their military. and the women will be forced into submission houses. Where they will be subjected to slavery, rape, they do that to any girl, humanoid, human, old and young."
"mutilations and torture. In Kosbachi….there is no escape."
Arpeggio trembled slightly after hearing this, she looked at her little sister and couldn't imagin her younger sister being forced into nothingness.
Then suddenly, rapid gunfire could be heard and it continued with dozens of more gunshots being heard. Loud screaming's and explosion joined in as the passengers were wondering what was happening outside.
"What was that!"
"Oh no, they're going to kill us all!"
Lelei became very scared and grabbed her sister, who in return embraced her and held her hand closely "Sister?"
Arpeggio looked down to her with a sweet smile while being scared herself, she kept herself strong for the only family she had left "Don't worry sister, I'll stick by you."
Then suddenly the gunfire stopped.
The passengers became very silent, not knowing what happened on the other side other and were becoming worried for what was coming to them.
"Hey, look into those wagons!" somebody from the outside yelled, I want them all out!"
One humanoid teared up "They're coming for us."
"Abdul, Kemal. Help me out here, this one is locked." This voice was closer, meaning they were outside their wagon.
Arpeggio grabbed her sister's hands while starting to pray, but she then became very weak, she was on the brink of collapse 'Please, have mercy.'
The wagon door began to move and it was pushed open while the sunny light temporarily made the passengers flinch.
Lelei suddenly felt her sister's hand slipping away from hers and turned around "Sister…."
Arpeggio laid unconscious to the wooden floor while the passengers started to get out, Lelei quickly crawled to her side and started to shake here "Sister…Sister!"
Arpeggio didn't respond when Lelei was shaking her "Please wake up, wake up!"
"Hey, we need help! Some girl passed out here!" one of the female passengers yelled to the front while holding Arpeggio by the shoulders.
One of the soldiers responded back "Okay, everybody get out first, make room for the girl!"
The wagon started to slowly become empty as Lelei kept shaking her sister around to make sure she gets awoken.
Soon enough they were the only ones left in the wagon with Lelei still trying to wake up her sister, seeing that she wasn't responding, her eyes began to water up.
"Please wake up….wake up…." She began to slow down with the shaking and released a tear while looking down and sniffing "I need you…"
Then when she was about to cry she suddenly felt a pair of hands touch her palms. She looked up and saw that those hands belonged to a man in a blue coat, a teenager with blonde hair, whiskers and blue eyes that fitted his unique and caring smile.
"Let me help you." Naruto said softly as he grabbed for a can of water, he shoved his free hand under Arpeggio's head and raised it up so he could make her drink it.
Then suddenly Lelei started to feel odd and then began to feel dizzy herself "What…what's happening…to me?"
Naruto looked up and saw Lelei was about to collapse and turned around, ordering "Kemal, come here. Quick!" she heard before closing her eyes and going out too.
Flashback ending
Gustave was amazed on what he heard, such detailed horror "When I woke up, I was laid next to my sister in a hospital bed on a train that was hijacked, it brought us to Rondel where me and my sister would begin our studies under the care of Mimoza La Mer. A grand master in the Magical arts." Lelei explained "At that same time, the Liberation war was at its full swing, a few months later Naruto and his Young Anasazi movement managed to take down the Merchant's dictatorship."
Gustave raised an eyebrow "The Young Anasazi?"
Lelei giggled slightly at that name.
"The Young Anasazi…" Seamus also known as Sledge said as he and the others were in a conversation with Emir and the former Sultan, Hussein while drinking Anasazi green leaf tea in the waiting room where there were a lot of chairs and tables left available with traditional Anasazi cuisine and drinks which included tea that was similar to that of the Middle Eastern countries. They were talking about the history of Naruto and their country "How did you come up with that name?"
Emir began to fill Seamus' cup of tea and spoke "Why you ask, Is it such an interesting name to you?"
Smoke also known as James chuckled as he remembered some of Seamus' family history "Nah, it's just that Seamus' family had some history with an organization with a name like that a century ago. The Young Scots to be exact."
"Oh, interesting. What did your country achieve, Mr. Cowden?" Hussein asked, as his interest in history spiked into his mind.
"Oh nothing, my family was back in the day…." He looked over his team and saw they were eyeing him "Rather unhappy with the state what they were living in, but that's in the past but tell me, what are the Young Anasazi?"
The Anasazi warriors glanced among each other before turning towards Minister Hussein. The old man took notice of the attention he was gaining and the expectations of him explaining to them.
Hussein took a sip from his cup of tea and sighed "Where shall I start, well let me say this. After I was removed from power, the Merchant and the aristocrats of the high class, military establishment and the clergy joined him before the news went through the kingdom." Hussein gripped his cup as he remembered some of those people were those he grew up with, friends. But they weren't friends anymore when they stabbed him in the back.
He continued to talk "So most of the powerful sided with the Merchant and started his projects that would change the nation, railroads, oil refineries, new infrastructure, massive manufacturing factories that were bigger than any palace a monarch can dream off."
"I don't get it, why refuse such opportunity to progress your kingdom?" Ying asked.
Hussein turned to the Chinese woman and replied "You know where those factories were built?...over the houses of my people, who were forced or killed out of their land and fled away."
"The factories got build over the lands of those who stayed loyal to the Sultan. Low ranking clergies, tribes, farmers and students. Workers who were forced out of their workplaces when the dictatorship started using slave labor, the people started to strike after they were left behind. " Lelei was explaining a short story of history with the GIGN doctor and Narumi in the room, they were listening to her while she took the time to visit Naruto's unconscious body.
Lelei turned to them "Farmers, clergy men, workers, students and even some military personnel, people from all background started to strike in various cities, Jilachi, Al-Basura, the Margha. Many of the cities began to strike as the protesters started to be organized into organized opposition groups." Lelei remembered how the stories were, where armed men closed off streets, occupied buildings, demanding their Sultan was released and the power to be turned over to him.
"Must been a hell of a time." Gustave said as he asked the continue the story "…I guess it didn't turn out well did it?"
Lelei shook her head "Instead of listening to their demands, the merchant with the help of his generals used his new weapons." Lelei said "Testing on them by mowing them down, every last of them."
Those words were hard to swallow by the humanitarian as that describing did fit the perfect strategy of a dictator.
"After the military retook those cities, they started an campaign of persecution against the tribes and anyone else who refused to submit to the new government, burning down settlements, raiding villages, deporting massive amounts of people and murdering all across the country. The powers in Jilachi hoped to either force the tribes to their knees or at least eradicate them. But then 10 years ago…"
"What happened 10 years ago?..." Narumi asked as she turned around, wanted to know what happened.
"After months of fighting against the Saderans and the Merchant's troops, Naruto took it to the next step," One of the Anasazi warriors began to speak, it was Kemal "An assembling was called in." he gained the attention of the operators "In the Mountains of Knappnia, all opposition groups, tribes and anyone who hated the Merchant and the Saderans came together to speak about the future of our fight against those bastards."
Narumi decided to ask "How did it go?"
"Well, first we thought it would be like the last four attempts. You see, the Young Anasazi was an organized opposition that was made up from many different factions, like on the right we have had the tribes, traditionalists, low ranking nobles, former military officers and nationalistic groups who opposed the Merchant on the grounds he was working for an foreign government and splinted up the country" Kemal said as he raised one hand.
Gustave held his hand under his chin "Understandable…."
"And on the left, we had the cities and low ranking citizens like the farmers, workers, students and pro-democratic parties like liberals thinkers, reformist clergies and pro-workers right groups who hated the merchant for his strict authoritarian hold on the region and not improving the working conditions or giving them any voice in anything."
Lelei nodded "Count in all the tribes and ethnical groups all over the former kingdom who faced persecution in the past, it was said over a hundred different groups met up in those mountains…"
Narumi turned to Naruto "And I suppose Naruto was there?"
"Was there?" Kemal snorted "He was in the middle of it, he actually managed to make them come to an agreement. We all would have one same goal and one goal only: remove the Merchant from power and take back control of the country. It is a very long story to begin with but it still ended as a success after a decade of challenges."
Kemal shrugged to a warrior next to him "I remember it like it was yesterday, nobody thought he would pull it off but he did."
"You know…" Gustave said as he stroked his beard "Sounds more like a Lawrence of Arabia story if you ask me…" He turned to the blonde "I wonder how he managed to achieve all that…"
While the rest of the guys were talking among themselves, Thatcher was looking through the window and focused his sights on how how Narumi was sitting by his brother's side.
Lelei walked to the other side of Naruto's bed and stared at his sleeping body, seeing all the equipment attacked to him, pumping all sort of liquids into him and monitoring his condition.
Naruto meanwhile was going through some memories, one particular….
Flashback, 10 years ago, Saderan capital
A twenty year old Naruto was walking through the streets of the Saderan imperial castle as the nobles were glaring daggers at him. Which was understandable since he was the one ultimately responsible for kicking out the Saderans off the desert and blowing them an crushing defeat at Al-Basura.
while wearing the traditional blue Anasazi coat, he was accompanied by Kemal and Hussein, who was the one leading the group towards the throne room while they were being escorted by an imperial officer.
When they reached the big doors, it opened up as the Anasazi delegation entered the room.
There sat on the throne the new emperor of the Saderan empire; Molt Sol Augustus. Successor of his late brother Paulus who committed suicide after the humiliating defeat at Al-Basura. He was younger than his brother but less was known for his brother's as he was the quiet and discreet one of the Imperial royal family who was patience ad calm but was in no way a peaceful guy as he had proven himself in his army's conquests on the eastern parts of Falmart.
Molt stood up from his throne and spread out his arms as he welcomed "Sultan, it's great to see you alive."
Hussein kept his cool and walked over to the new emperor "It's good to see you too, Molt."
Both men shook each other's hands as a sign of respect. Molt did noticed the blonde young man wearing a Anasazi traditional coat and resembled the man who defied his brother and his allies.
The emperor turned his attention to the blonde "I guess you are Naruto Uzumaki?"
Naruto looked at the man in front of him, the man who succeeded his brother after he's failure at Al-Basura and had a role into the ceasefire agreement instead of continuing the war. Now he stood in the same room as him.
Naruto carefully but strongly replied "Yes, I am."
The emperor stepped towards him with the strict expression of order on his face, demanding respect as a royal as he was he commented "I expected someone…older."
"I get that a lot." Naruto replies as it was some kind of joke before extending his arm as a gesture to greet him "Perhaps we can speak on the terms of peace?"
The emperor looked first towards the hand and then the young man and nodded "It seems like it is inevitable, let's talk-"
"FATHER!"
The men turned towards the door, seeing two young girls coming into the room, one had brown hair and jade green eyes. She wears a blue headband and the other girl has dark red hair as well as eyes of matching color.
The brunette girl tried to pull her friend by the arm away "Pina! We can't go in here!"
"Stop bugging me, Hamilton!" the young Pina freed herself from her friend and turned back to her father "Father, when are you-" she stopped when she saw her father standing with the Anasazi. The Anasazi! The ones who defied them. Who dare to stand up against the Empire!
Molt turned to her daughter and saw she was beginning to growl at the sight of the Anasazi men and wanted to prevent her from doing something stupid "Pina, please listen to you friend and go back to the backyard with the others."
"But Father!" Pina shouted pointing at the "These savages are the ones responsible of uncle's death!" she yelled as she started to sprint for the man with the yellow hair while screaming "They killed Grey!"
She threw a punch at Naruto but her small fist was easily caught by Naruto who was taller than him and smiled at her fiery behavior and how "Hehe, you remind me of my sister."
"My sister…."
"My sister…."
"….Narumi?"
Naruto's eyes suddenly split wide open and saw her sister in front of him, causing some gasps to be heard.
"Naruto!"
He turned to his right and saw Narumi standing "Narumi…" he spoke in a grasping voice and turned to his left and saw the little mage "Lelei…"
Narumi grabbed her brother's hand and held it close to her "It's okay…" she released a tear from her eye "You're in a hospital. Everybody is here."
Naruto tried to bring up a smile but groaned, his back felt very stiff and he was forced to lay back "Argh, fuck."
"Take it easy, Naruto." Doc said "You just woke up from a three day coma."
"Oh, okay….Hey Doc, long time not seen. Haven't we?"
Doc chuckled as he walked over towards him and shook his hand "That's true monsieur, good to see you're still alive, Naruto."
"Yeah good to see you too, Gustave." Naruto was glad to see one of his friends as he looked around and saw Kemal "Kemal, you okay. Good."
Kemal approaches the end of the bed and was happy his friend was awake "I've got nothing sir, you did made a lot a people scared though."
"Who do you refer to?" Kemal pointed at the window.
Naruto looked and saw that everybody was waving, with Dominic and Ryad trying to show some cases of beer, sake and even whiskey.
"Oi! Naruto!" Dominic banged his hand against the window "About time you woke up, we've been waiting for days!"
"Yeah!" Blackbeard AKA Craig said as he spoke "Hey, Doc! Come on let us in. we wanna celebrate!'
"I told you before," Doc said as he was annoyed what he had to repeat again "NO alcohol in this room."
"Oh come on!"
"Well then," Naruto said as he got up from his bed as he sat in the wheelchair that was laying there for him with the help of Narumi "Let's get out of the room, shall we?"
Doc sighed as he knew that this was going to be battle he could lose if he forced Naruto to lay back, besides Naruto's condition was good enough for him to get some food inside of him "You sure, Naruto? You just woke up."
Naruto sat down the wheelchair as he received his blue coat puts it on "Heck yeah, you know how long it has been for me since I got a good drink?" he turned to them and said "Hey, you got some scotch! I'm dying for one!"
Seamus laughed as he pulled out a bottle "Just for you, mate."
It was late and In the waiting room, everybody was eating the cuisine the extra backup the Anasazi had called in. there were also all kinds of drinks and started talking among each other.
Naruto took a another shot of scotch as he had his third shot of scotch, all the other alcohol was already drained and they were just drinking soda, tea or water since the doctors were having enough of it and prohibited any more alcohol, even with they being it an special occasion.
Naruto was now biting a piece of a chicken leg and was munching it with satisfaction as he had not eaten for several days. He sat between Hussein and Kemal who kept an eye on him in case he was having pain, especially with his legs.
"So," Hussein started to ask "When can you walk again?"
Doc was using his napkin to clean up his mouth while he answered "With the mage Lelei her magic, I believe you can walk tomorrow without much problem. I do suggest you take it easy with the stepping and take it easy on the exercise."
Naruto nodded "Okay doc, I'll do that."
The savior Tachanka took jug at his drink of Russian vodka before he passed it to Fuze "Say Naruto, what's it like on the other side?"
"ehh, it's nothing special. Just like the fantasy books. Mages, dragons, humanoids, you know?" Naruto shrugged it off.
Julien was the first to react "Really? That's your answer? Can you not be little more specific, come on. Give us more juicy details."
Masaru agreed with him "Yeah, come on man."
"Give us something." Ryad added
"Hey, knock it out. Alright?" Yumiko said to them while grabbing the arm of Jordan around her "We're going there anyway, so calm down."
"Guys, guys, guys. calm down." Naruto interrupted the conversation "You all are going to see the Special Region anyway. Okay?"
Dominic groaned "But we have to wait another four days…"
"Uhm…." Itami, who was sitting with his fellow JSDF colleagues and the Special Region guests started to speak while scratching "We're going back tomorrow."
"WHAT?!" every Rainbow operator said in their own language.
Narumi turned to her brother "You too, Naruto?"
Naruto nodded "Yes, I'm afraid so."
Buck asked "But why?"
"Well, for multiple reasons." Naruto started naming them up "For one, I'm way over the time and need to report back to Jilachi with Hussein here."
Capitão understood what he meant by it and asked "You mean the capital of the Anasazi Republic?"
"Correct, they expect me to come back and deliver them my report." Naruto grumbled as he reminded himself something "Also the amount of media attention is unbearable. Especially after speaking my mind against that woman."
"About that," Masaru raised his glass "Thanks for standing up for us, man. It was time someone gave her a reality check and owned her."
Tomita also raised his glass "Yeah, me too."
Kuribayashi smiled "Thanks."
Itami smiled as he stood up and raised his glass to make a toast "To Naruto."
Everybody raised their glass "To Naruto!"
Naruto smiled as he took a toast also, while not noticing the genuine smiles of certain people who were happy to see him alive and well. With one of them ready to make the first move.
While most members of Rainbow already left the building, only Kemal and Emir were outside Naruto's room sitting on chairs, guarding him while also sleeping. Itami and the others took residence with the others while the Anasazi were either outside the building, sleeping in their tents or patrolling the building.
"So…you're mission is to find the kidnapped people…" Naruto said as he was talking to Narumi's stepfather or the current senior leader of Rainbow; Thatcher.
The Englishmen nodded "That's right," he was sitting on the edge of the bed "I hope you understand it."
"Of course I understand it." Naruto replied while looking through the window "I could've expected the Saderans to do something like this. After all it's in their nature."
Thatcher sighed "You think…they are alive?"
"…..I don't know." Naruto answered as he really wished he could've said no "But I can say that I might know who's responsible for it, I'm just not sure it's him."
"Why are you sure it's that guy?"
Naruto grimaced "Because he's the kind a guy that enjoys these kinds of things, attacking people without a warning, kidnapping them and forcing them to submission. Has Hussein fixed everything with Six?"
"Yes, according to her we will get two bases in the Anasazi's territory, with an base of operations in the JSDF camp we got ourselves three bases in total."
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Naruto and Mike turned to the door "Come in."
Inside came Ela, who asked nervously "I'm sorry Mike, but can I speak to Naruto…alone?"
Mike looked between the two and nodded "Alright, I'm done here anyway." He took off walking and said "See you later."
When Mike left the room with the door open, Ela closed it behind her while not facing Naruto.
"Hey, Ela." Naruto began "…Something wrong?"
Ela slowly turned around, facing the blonde as she started to step towards him.
He started to feel uncomfortable as he remembered he left Ela in a moment she needed him before he got himself killed in Syria "Okay, Ela I know I screwed up. But listen I'm sorry, I didn't."
"Shut up," she said silently before grabbing him by the collar and spoke "I've been holding this back for too long."
Naruto didn't know what she meant by until he found himself being forced to her face; kissing him fully on the lips. The make out took for over a minute for Naruto too realize what she was meaning.
Naruto felt something wet going down his cheeks, like it left a trail of liquid trace that flew down to his throat. It were tears, Ela's tears.
"Ela-Chan…." Naruto said in formality which he rarely used.
She broke of the kiss and connected her forehead with his, making eye contact while embracing her arms around his neck.
"I missed you…" she said while her eyes were watering.
"Ela…"
"When you appeared to be alive on tv, my feelings started to toll. I can't say how much you things for me, Naruto." She gave him a genuine smile "When you saved me in Afghanistan, I saw you as a friend of mine. When you came between me and Zofia and forced us to end our arguing, I started to feel too different about you…" She grabbed for the zipper of her camo coat and zipped it down.
She took Naruto's hands and brought them under her coat, grabbing her hips as she sat on the bed, right on Naruto's crotch, she was blushing hard while speaking "I'm sorry Naruto but I got to confess, after all of this; I want to spend the rest of my life besides you. No matter what…."
"Ela…" Naruto wanted to make sure she meant what she said "Are you sure? Cuz I'm not planning on living this world anymore. I've got a new home, friends, family, responsibilities…"
Ela smiled "I don't care, just please let me in your life."
"…Okay," Naruto said as he took the sheets and pulled it over them, both of them still staring at each other.
"Are you sure?"
She nodded "I'm deadly sure." She saw how Naruto reached to her head and removed her hat and puts it aside.
He the, glided his hand down from her dyed hair to her soft cheek, he whipped the remaining tears away "Let's clean those tears away," he glided his hand to her chin, pulling her softly to him while he smiled "Because I'm going to make you the happiest woman now."
"Oh, Naruto…" Ela said as they went down and started making out, the bedsheets covered their bodies but underneath they started to become frisky while panting into each other's mouth. They then pulled the sheets over their heads as they continued to make out. Luckily for them Naruto wasn't attached to any machines so he could get on without interupption.
Next morning, Ginza
Naruto stood there, standing at the memorial for the victims of the Ginza incident. Even though it was from a distance, he read the names of the victims, ranging from all genders and ages, he also noticed some of those names included foreigners.
Germans, French, Americans, Filipinos, Koreans, there were nationalities from the North Atlantic to that of Europe and even to some of Africa. This wasn't just an Japanese tragedy, it was an international tragedy.
He gripped his fists while holding onto his crutches, Doc had told him to walk on them for a few days until Lelei told him it was okay since he relied on her, which made sense since she did most of the healing.
Right now he ignored the many flash photography from all sides, the media wanted to ask him dozens of question and make him do something while he stared at how the Saderans, Tuka, Lelei and Rory were praying on their way, while the Anasazi were attracting the attention of the Middle Eastern media, who were amazed how they were praying almost identically as them.
From the windows up to blocked off building, Eliza, Jordan, Elena and Ela were watching how Naruto was simply standing there while the rest was praying.
"What is he doing?" Jordan asked.
Elena took a picture with her camera before saying "I don't know, maybe he's taking the moment to adjust the place where his country was attacked." Elena knew what Naruto was thinking about, it wasn't strange to see standing there at the memorial of so many countrymen of yours to be laying in one place. She knew…after Madrid.
Eliza spoke "Look. He's moving.'
Naruto slowly stepped towards the memorial while gaining the attention more and more from the media while he reached something from his coat.
He pulled out a bouquet of white roses and laid it down in front of the memorial while Rory took an interest at Naruto being so affected by this. There was anger, anger in his heart but also sorrow.
"Naruto, why are you feeling like this?" Rory asked with curiosity "You're not a Japanese citizen anymore."
"No, I ain't." Naruto answered as he stood up and pulled out something from his neck, it were the dog tags of his unit that was killed in Iraq, including his own he puts them down next to the roses and stared at it.
"But this is still my country, I volunteered to serve and I know have one mission to accomplish."
Itami, who was listening on this asked "And what is it?"
Naruto and the others walked over to the jeeps the Anasazi had prepared for him as he entered the passenger seat with Kemal driving and Hussein sitting in the back.
Naruto turned to his friend and answered "I will make sure those folks who have been kidnapped will be brought home, all of them."
The engines started as Naruto shook Itami's hand "We'll see you on the other side. Send my regards to the old man."
Itami nodded "Sure will do."
Naruto turned back to the building and saw Ela staring while Eliza was looking between them thinking 'what is going on?'
Naruto waved them before the jeep drove off towards the gate, leaving more camera's to flash, people to speak and Kemal to ask.
"Where now, Naruto?"
Naruto turned back to Hussein who nodded and turned back to his friend.
"It's time to finish this, to Jilachi." Naruto said as the jeep drove into the gate, as he left another world with finished business,
He had another pile of business to finish in Falmart.